Old Retired Green Truck
                                                              Oil on Gessoboard  6X6"

In Oct a group of painting friends, including some from CA made our way to Abiquiu, NM and Ghost Ranch to paint for a week.  We are experiencing a drought in this part of the country and it seldom rains but one day during our week, it poured!  Luckily I had a screened-in porch off my room at the Abique Inn and some of us were able to paint there.  This old retired truck is parked nearby so I photographed it and painted from that.

 

Rio Grande at Pilar

10 1/2 x 14"

 

This is a palette knife painting - something different for me.  I think it gives wonderful texture to the water!

                                                           
                                                                     Aspens 2012 
                                                            6x6 oil on gesso board

This is a little painting of the aspen in the Sangre de Cristo mountains behind Santa Fe.
The colors are spectacular, almost too bright to look real in a painting.  There are painters at every bend in the road and the roads are crowded as I think half of Santa Fe comes up at this time of year to see the colors.

Away we go!  I took a wonderful workshop from Carol Marine here in Santa Fe last month and she encouraged me to start a blog so this is my first post.  This is a small 6x6 oil on gessoed masonite that I did during the workshop.  The challenge was reflections.